Cut Aid To Reds

March 18, 1985|The Morning Call

To the Editor:

Legislation to prohibit all extensions of credit, credit guarantees, investment guarantees or grants by any U.S. government agency to any communist country has been introduced. The measure is H.R. 97, by Rep. Philip Crane, R- Ill.

The Soviet Union is a dying empire that can do little to help its own people. It is run by a war-machine government where the average life-span is going down, along with all other indexes of the quality of life. Crime and vice are going up.

By lending them money and bailing them out in times of economic crisis, we are merely helping them to rearm - helping the Soviet police state.

Rep. Crane stated, "If we continue to finance the Soviets and those countries within their sphere of influence, the consequences may be grave indeed."

In the words of Soviet defector Alexander Solzhenitsyn, "If in the frenzied competition of one country with another, they will continue to rush in loans and advanced technology, then I'm afraid that Lenin will turn out to have been right."

Lenin is alleged to have said, "When it comes time to hang the capitalists we will find them bidding against each other to supply us the rope."

Crane said taking the first step, cutting off loans to the Soviet bloc, is the only way to avert our own doom.

The United States is making credit guarantees for the U.S.S.R. while America has skyrocketing trade deficits.